An RDD is a spark structure which involves the in-memory storage of data on a number of machines.
A DRM is Mahout's concept of a distributed row matrix. This is mostly an on-disk concept. On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 3:34 AM, kalmohsen <kalmoh...@ahlia.edu.bh> wrote: > I am continuously reading about Mahout, Hadoop, Spark and Scala; willing > to be able to add value to them. However, I am confused with 2 things: > Spark RDD and Mahout DRM. > I do know that spark’s RDD is used while working with Mahout. However, I > came across some Scala code which is using Mahout DRM or wrapping RDD to > DRM. > > Thus, could anyone clarify the difference between them? > > Thanks in advance > Regards > > >
